do is create leadership paralysis. nobody can do anything. it is about the rights. that is what the father said, it is about the rights of the person who murdered his daughter. what about the rights of his late daughter in the asian women that are getting killed? perhaps if it was white supremacist, the media would care, but they don t right now. we have to drill down on the simplest equation. the deranged man on the street, women getting murdered. you don t need to add anymore context unless you are hanging out with a deranged mail and explain how it is about society and inequality. good luck with that. right now we need to get these people off the streets and in institutions. one less thing for institutions, if they are closed we need to open them up. he was focusing on the institutions abusing teenagers and young people with disease. we don t know where these other mental institutions. why aren t they open? we want these people to get help. we don t want to hurt them.
there s a pretty clear scientific consensus that if we want to contain the virus, if we want to be in a position where both society and the nhs aren t in danger of being overwhelmed, we need to bring in more measures. but you say restrictions. i think one problem is that we ve only framed this in terms of restrictions. certainly the simplest equation is that if you want to limit the spread of infection then you ve got to limit the number of contacts we have. it s as simple as that. if you do that by, for instance, closing things, closing mass events, which the population want, the polls show that clearly, by closing night clubs and restaurant, it seems critical to combine it with support. what we need is a combination of protections and restrictions and support. in many ways i think that is better